Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: October 2022

Emotet Rises Again With More Sophistication, Evasion

An analysis of the malware and its infection strategies finds nearly 21,000 minor and 139 major variations on the malware — complexity that helps it dodge analysis.

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US Airports in Cyberattack Crosshairs for Pro-Russian Group Killnet

Killnet calls on other groups to launch similar attacks against US civilian infrastructure, including marine terminals and logistics facilities, weather monitoring centers, and healthcare systems.

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Zimbra RCE Bug Under Active Attack

A flaw in unpatched Zimbra email servers could allow attackers to obtain remote code execution by pushing malicious files past filters.

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Ukraine Enhances Cooperation With EU Cybersecurity Agencies

Ukraine looks to enhance European integration with ENISA special partner status

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Endor Labs offers dependency management platform for open source software

Endor Labs came out of stealth on Monday and launched its Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform, designed to ensure end-to-end security for open source software (OSS). The software addresses three key things—helping engineers select better dependencies, helping organizations optimize their engineering, and helping them reduce vulnerability noise. The platform scans the source code and offers feedback […]

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Intel Confirms Source Code Leak

Cyber-criminals could use the leaked source code to help launch attacks

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ThermoSecure: Cracking Passwords Using Finger Heat on Keyboards is Now Possible

A group of researchers have guessed 100% of six-character passwords using this attack

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Researchers Detail Malicious Tools Used by Cyberespionage Group Earth Aughisky

A new piece of research has detailed the increasingly sophisticated nature of the malware toolset employed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group named Earth Aughisky. “Over the last decade, the group has continued to make adjustments in the tools and malware deployments on specific targets located in Taiwan and, more recently, Japan,” Trend Micro disclosed in […]

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Facebook Login Details at Risk as Meta Identifies Over 400 Malicious Apps

Some of the malicious apps are able to evade detection and continue to make it onto legitimate app stores

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